Developing mental health education for health volunteers in a township in South Africa

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-105

  Bradshaw, Tim ^a   Mairs, Hilary ^a   Richards, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

education; lay educators; psychosocial interventions; serious mental illness; South Africa; voluntary mental health workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969301764     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1463423606pc282oa     Document Type: Article

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